gilescope: retain at Rank 1

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+# Evidence-0001: Retention at Rank I
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+| **Report Date** | Date of submission (2024/05/27)                                                             |
+| **Submitted by**| Giles Cope                                                                                  |
+
+
+## Member details
+
+- Matrix username: @gilescope:matrix.org
+- Polkadot address: 14mDeKZ7qp9hqBjjDg51c8BFrf9o69om8piSSRwj2fT5Yb1i
+- Current rank: I
+- Date of initial induction: 2023-11-11
+- Date of last report: N/A
+- Area(s) of Expertise/Interest: Substrate
+
+
+## Reporting period
+
+- Start date: 2024-01-01
+- End date: 2024-05-27
+
+
+## Evidence
+
+Hi all, hope you are well. Here's the contributions that I've made to polkadot-sdk recently.
+I look forward to seeing you at Polkadot decoded 2024!
+
+## Q1-Q2 2024 Code Contributions
+
+Slightly made it nicer to construct clients:
+
+- [Extract PartialComponents into a type alias](https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/2767)
+
+(I forget who suggested this but it was not my own inspiration)
+
+### Removal of sp-std
+
+I'm reducing references to the sp-std crate gradually with a view to removing it:
+
+- [removed 2021 core prelude](https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/4183)
+- [removal from primitives](https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/3274)
+- [removal from some of frame](https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/3199)
+
+### Tracing
+
+I am investigating adding structured logging to substrate. In preperation these improvements have been made:
+
+- [Removed redundant logging code](https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/4059)
+- [Major bumped tracing-subscriber](https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/3891) 
+
+### Misc
+
+I have watched or join most of the monthly fellowship calls. I wish to retain my current rank.
+
+(Any fellowship salary to me would get heavily taxed so I choose to forgo any fellowship salary at this time.)